Luke 15:24
because this my son was dead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In Context
23and bring hither the fatted calf, slay him, and eating, let us be merry:
Cross References
Matthew 18:10See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that their angels in heaven do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.
Mark 8:22And they come into Bethsaida: and they bring Him a blind man, and they intreat Him that He may touch him.
Luke 15:4What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert, and go after the lost one, until he may find it?
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32
The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →